Combination billfold, memorandum pad, and purse



H. A. @AMAN COMBINATION BILLF'OLD, MEMORANDUM PAD, AND PURSE Filed sept. 2o, 1947 INVENTOR. n7 cg /7/9 W@ MTV-'mmm V5 Patented Jan. 31, 1950 COMBINATION BILLFOLD, MEMORANDUM PAD, AND PURSE Howard A. Bauman, West Bend, Wis., assigner to Enger-Kress Company, West Bend, Wis., a corporation oiz' Wisconsin Application September 20, 1947, Serial No. 775,325

.6 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a combination billrold, memorandum pad and purse.

It is a primary object of the invention to provide an exceptionally compact and 'useful arrangement of a billfold, coin purse and memorandum pad. In achieving this objective, it is my purpose to `provide an arrangement in which the coin purse is supported in part by a iiap or partition having a height somewhat less than the length of a bill, and across the upper end of which bills may be folded, the folded bills being enclosed by a flap, for the free end ,of which the coin purse provides an anchorage.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a billfold organization in which the bills `are enclosed by an end flap and have their end portions fully exposed upon the opening of the nap. while the larger areas of the bills are still housed within the fold, thus permitting the money to be counted, or permitting a particular bill to be selected from a number [of bills, without exposing the several bills to the risk of loss which is involved if all of the bills are removed for either of these purposes.

Other important objects of the invention can best be described by referring to the disclosure of the invention in connection with the accompanying drawings.

Inthe drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective showing the .fbillfold closed.

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective showing the billfold open.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged `detail View taken in section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the several flaps vopen to expose the billfold compartment and the coin purse compartment.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail view taken in section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

My :billfold comprises the -usual panel member 'I Iioldable upon the vertical fold line 8. At one si-de of the fold line, there is stitched to the back panel member '1, an inner panel section 9 which is stitched to the back panel I along its top margin II), its end margin II, and its bottom margin I2. The inner margin I3 of panel section 9 is vfree to provide an opening into the interior pocket formed between the inner panel 9 and the outer panel 1. Panel 9 also provides a strap I4, behind which the tab of a memorandum pad I5 is receivable as shown in Fig. 2.

Connected with the left-hand end margin I6 pocket lprovided between panels II and 'I.

of the .back panel 'I is a -partitionpanel I'I which is stitched to the end margin I6 of the back and is further connected by a row of stitching at I8 to the bottom margin of the back. The top edge I9 and the inner side margin 2D of the partition ,panel I'I are free to al=ord access to a billfold The width of panel I'I is slightly greater than the width of the currency to be received into -such pocket, ywhile the height of the partition panel I'I is approximately three-fourths of the length of the bills. Thus, when bills 2| are placed in the pocket, they are 'disposed vertically rather than horizontally :respecting the zbillfpld, and their upper end .portions project from the pocket and are folded over the top margin I9 of the partition panel I l, as shown in Fig. 4. The back panel 'I is formed with an upwardly extending flap 23 which may, if desired, have a pocket-forming lining ply 24 to receive tickets and the like. The nap '23 is foldable over the folded ends `of the bills 2 Land the free end portion 25 of such ap may be anchored behind the coin purse presently to be described.

The coin purse is provided by the sheetor material 2S which has its inner margin 2'I connected :by stitching at 28 to the otherwise free inner -margin 20 of the partition ply I'I. Thence the sheet 26 'passes about the said margin 20 of the partition ply land across the face thereof, its bottom edge being anchored by the stitching I8 previously referred to. Near the left-hand inner endof the billfold, the sheet of material 26 is folded upon itself at '29 and 30 to form a pleat best illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5. Its end is held by the stitching 3I, which also connects the partition lpanel Il with the end I6 of the back panel 1.

Near its top, the sheet or web 26 which forms Vthe coin purse pocket is provided with a conventener element at 38 releasably eng-aged with the male element 33.

i, As best shown in Fig. 3, there is a shallow pocket between the coin purse closure flap 35 and the partition web or panel I'I in which the free end 25 of the billfold closure iiap 23 is releaseably engaged for anchorage. Obviously, the

;' dependent for' anchorage upon the coin purse j compartment, either compartment may be opened independently of the other.

to take advantage of the novel billfold, organization disclosed herein, without providing at coin purse, other means may be provided for the anchorage of the free end ofthe billfoldA closure flap.

As a means of holding the entire billfold in the folded position in which it. is shown; in Fig..

1, I prefer to provide an extension flap 40 integral with the right-hand end of the back and4 projecting beyond the pocket-forming panel 9, said i'ap being adapted to. be foldedv over the` lei-thand end of the back andanchored theretoy by the glove fastenerA means vll I.

. The opening of the glove fastener 45| is a prerequisite to any' accessv to bills or coins. However; the mere opening of' ila-p 40 gives access direotly'v tothe memorandum pad only. When the pad is in use., no money is exposed. As above noted, thev biilfol'd pocket` and the coin purse pocket areindividually accessiblethrough separat'e-v flapsi 2'3 and 35 respectively.

I claim:-

l'nYA abillfol'd of leather or the like, the cornbinatiorr with panelslinterconnected" along a common edge-to provide-a billfoldl compartment and a coinpursecompartment having openings atA different distances from saidv common edge, of a closure for thecoin purse compartment having a xed' marginal anchorage to the bil'lfold along a line-within the coin purse compartment whereby to provide a shallow pocket between the billfold compartment and said flap, and a closure 'iiap for thebill'fold compartment having a free end portion detachably engaged in said pocket.

'2L In a vbillfold of leather or the like, the combination with aback panel folded centrally upon itself, of" a bill-retaining partition connected to one endl of" said back panel and extending therefrom. toward the' fold, said partition being connected to` saidV panel at its bottom and; havingl a freel top; and: one f-'ree side ed'ge through which currencymay beintroduced into the space between said partition and said panel to.- lie paraf- -leltovsaid fold, Vthe height of the partition being lessthanthelength of the currency, whereby the currency is foldabley over said partition, azap-connectedi with the panel and foldable'over the partition and over the end portions of currency so folded,` and arr anchorage on the front; of the partition withv which av free end portion ofv said flap is=detaclr1ably.` engaged, said anchorage com'- prising Aa nap: for another compartment secured to. saldi partition and having an intermediate fold,v behind which said rst mentioned flap is receivable.

3'. Thedevi'ce ofclaim 2 in which such anchorage lia-p' hasvbeneathV itaY coin purse marginally connected, with the partitionv and formingv a pocket with the partition into which the free end portion of said flap is inserted.

4L In abill'fold, the combination with-a back Where it is desired panel, of a partition panel cooperating with the back panel to provide a currency-receiving pocket, the partition panel having one side and a bottom margin connected to the back panel, the other side and the top margin of the partition panel being free to receive currency, the height of the partition panel being less than the length of the currency but more thanhalf of the length thereof, a flap connected with the back panel at its top edge and folded over the free top margin of the partitionl panel, and means for anchoring the'4 free end of said nap to the face of the partition panel at a point below the end of currency folded over the partition panel beneath said flap, said anchorage means comprising a coin purse secured to thepartition panel in a position to laptha portion of the free end of the folded iiap aforesaid.

5. The combination `set forth in claim 4 in which said coin purse comprises a web connected to the inner face of the partition panelv adjacent the free side edge thereof and extending about such edge rand across thev face of the partition panel, said web being' provided with means con.- necting it to a bottom portion of the partition panel and: to that side portion ofthe partition panel which is connected with thel back panel, said coin purse having a closure flap connected to said partition panel independently of said web along the Vline closer to said bottom portion of thev partition panel than is` the topr margin lof the coin purse and folded. over said coin purse to provide an anchorage pocket.

6; A- biilfold ofthe character described: including a lback having top, sideand' bottom margins; a partition secured to the back along" a side and bottom margin to receive paper currency therebetween; a flap comprising an' extension of the backAv and f'cldable over the top margin of the partition; a compartment forming member Secured to the partition and provided with' a compartment ap, said compartment ap being secured to the partition marginally of the compartment flap at a line between the member andthe partit'ionv whereby the compartment flap extends toward the top margin of the partition to form a pocket therebetween and is folded over the compartment member as a closure for the compartment; the first mentioned". flap being positioned to be tucked into and' retained by said pocket.

HOWARDA. BAUMAN.

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